Southern Baptist Convention

In All Things Pray

Prayer Resources for your Church

The SBC Executive Committee works closely with PrayerLink, a network of state convention and SBC entity prayer leaders partnering together to call and equip Southern Baptists to a renewed life of prayer to impact a lost world.

The resources and links on this page are created by prayer teams of PrayerLink members and are directly related to the ministries of a state Baptist convention or an SBC entity. These are made available to the wider Southern Baptist family with the hope and prayer that they will help spur a movement of God as we prayer together for the lost, for our nation, and for the world.

Many have been praying and longing for another Great Awakening to sweep our land. We commend these resources to you as one small piece of a much larger movement of God for which we all pray.

Any of the prayer categories below can be used as a one-hour season of prayer using a "10-20-30" prayer model. The four categories below follow the missions and ministry structure of Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem1, in all Judea2 and Samaria3, and to the ends of the earth4 (Acts 1:8).

Each hour-long season of prayer includes:

Ten minutes of Scripture reading, public leadership, and worship, followed by

Twenty minutes of sharing prayer concerns in small groups related to the session focus, followed by

Thirty minutes of guided and conversational times of individual, group, and corporate prayer.

1 My Family and Network of Friends

Create a prayer list of your family members, praying for them daily.

Introduce the CrossRoads Prayer Evangelism ministry (see sample at InAllThingsPray.net). Encourage church
members to list names of up to five friends and begin tracking their prayer, care, and sharing with
those friends.

Ask members of your congregation to write down names of unchurched and lost family members on a note
card and bring them to the front of the worship center and place them before the Lord.

2 My Church and Community

Print the names and dates of the church’s planned evangelistic emphases for the next six months—things
like VBS, revival services, or special music programs.

Lead the church to pray for these planned events by name during the pastoral prayer time on Sunday
morning. Pray also for the continued health and unity of the church.

Pray by name for the church’s ministry teams and committees, encouraging volunteers to use their ministry
opportunities to expand the Kingdom.

3 My Country and its Peoples

Read 1 Timothy 2:1–6 aloud during the morning worship service. Ask the congregation to intercede for the
nation. Mention the names of elected officials during the pastoral prayer.

Pray for the Lord to multiply your church’s reach by calling out of your congregation those who will serve as
pastors, missionaries, and church planters.

Pray for the diverse peoples of our nation and for the racial reconciliation that is possible only through
salvation in Jesus Christ.

4 My World and its People Groups

During the pastoral prayer, pray for those in your church who may be sensing God’s call to become part of
the “limitless ministry teams” serving alongside our IMB field missionaries.

Ask the Lord to give IMB trustees and leaders divine wisdom and guidance as they challenge Southern
Baptists to be on mission with God.

Ask for wisdom and mercy for missionaries accepting often-dangerous opportunities for service around
the world.

The one-hour “10-20-30” format is designed to serve as a model that can be replicated and used in a local church setting.

Missionary Moments

Missionary Moments, a weekly prayer guide (produced by the Stewardship Development Association, an organization of state convention CP and stewardship directors, for use in Sunday morning and evening worship services). To order a hardcopy of Missionary Moments, check with your state convention.